Gratitude to guru must never be forgotten; all advancement depends on faithful disciplic service, not intellectual pride.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
SarhSYaae DaNauveRd" SaivSaGaaeRPaSa&YaMa" ) AṣGa]aMaê >avTaa iXai+aTaae YadNauGa]haTa( )) 44 )) Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [chants verse] sarahasyo dhanur-vedaḥ savisargopasaṁyamaḥ astra-grāmaś ca bhavatā śikṣito yad-anugrahāt [SB 1.7.44] [02:11] Translation: "It was by Droṇācārya's mercy that you learned the military art of throwing arrows and the confidential art of controlling weapons." [break]
Prabhupāda: sarahasyo dhanur-vedaḥ savisargopasaṁyamaḥ... What is that? astra-grāmaś ca bhavatā śikṣito yad-anugrahāt [SB 1.7.44] This is also another Vedic civilization, that if you are benefited by somebody, you should always remain obliged to him. Śikṣito yad-anugrahāt. There is one Bengali proverb, guru-mārā-vidyā: "Guru, you learn from him first of all, then kill him. Don't care for guru." This is demonic.
By the grace of guru you learn something; then when you learn something, then you become greater than him, don't care for guru. This is demonic. Even if you have learned something, you must feel always obliged, patha pradarśaka. So this is Vedic civilization. Draupadī advising Arjuna that "You have learned this military art, by his grace, by guru's grace, now you are expert in the science of military art.
And suppose his son has committed some sinful activity. You cannot punish him, retaliate, so that guru's family will be aggrieved." This is Vedic culture. "Not only he is personally, but in his absence, his wife, his family, you should consider them." So there is nothing about... What is the purport?
Read. Pradyumna: "Dhanur-veda, or military science, was taught by Droṇācārya with all its confidential secrets of throwing and controlling by Vedic hymns. Gross military science is dependent on material weapons, but finer than that is the art of throwing arrows saturated with Vedic hymns, which act more effectively than gross material weapons like machine guns or atomic bombs. The control is by Vedic mantras, or the transcendental science of sound. It is said in the Rāmāyaṇa that Mahārāja Daśaratha, the father of Lord Śrī Rāma, used to control arrows by sound only.
He could pierce his target with his arrow by hearing the sound only, without seeing the object. So this is a finer military science than that of the gross material military weapons..." Prabhupāda: It is called śabda-bhedī-vāṇa. He who... Just like I cannot see where is the bird.
He's chirping. But śabda-bhedī-vāṇa, I can throw; wherever the bird is, it will go and kill. That is called śabda-bhedī-vāṇa. Mahārāja Daśaratha used it.